I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I] had a conversation about it. I read it. We kind of finished each other's sentences when it came to the nuances and personality flaws that the character had, and some stereotypes and things we were trying to stay away from. We agreed on that as well. He just kind of allowed me to run rampant with the ideas. As we paced ourselves through, we developed Turquoise.